Code-Driven Video and 3D Visualisation with Opus 5.5

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Eric Buess curates a thread of community demonstrations showcasing how Opus 5.5 and Claude Code produce videos, 3D scenes, and interactive educational graphics, frequently relying entirely on programmatically generated code rather than traditional diffusion models.

Key points

  1. Creator kimmonismus produced a 3-minute AI history film purely in code via Claude Code (~7,400 lines of React/TypeScript with Remotion, SVG/Canvas, open-source TTS, and synthesized Python audio).
  2. Some workflows combine Claude with external engines, such as Gavin Purcell using a Runway MCP to direct a five-minute documentary or chavez200t generating Blender 3D models from technical drawings.
  3. Multiple examples rely on Three.js for interactive simulations, including an optical camera lens lab by RyanSael and environmental/architectural scenes by hayashimon1 and onofumi_AI.
  4. Additional showcases include interactive token-level transformer visualisations (gamedevsam) and Claude skills rendering topographic art from actual elevation data (Greg_TheBuilder).

Why it matters

These implementations illustrate a shift in generative media: instead of outputting fixed pixels via image or video diffusion models, Opus 5.5 creates executable rendering code in Remotion or Three.js, offering programmatic precision and editable animation structures.

Analysis

The collection demonstrates two primary architectural paths: building self-contained rendering systems in WebGL/SVG/React, and acting as an agentic director that coordinates dedicated video generation platforms like Runway via MCP. Both methods showcase how advanced coding models can handle complex, multi-modal production workflows entirely through instructions and code generation.

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Eric Buess

@EricBuess · 24 September 2026

@kimmonismus made a 3-minute history of AI, from "Attention Is All You Need" onward, all in code: about 7,400 lines of React/TypeScript in Remotion, visuals in SVG and Canvas, an open-source TTS voice, and a score synthesized in Python. About an hour. t.co/gKWeGei3xk

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  1. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor A different route: @gavinpurcell gave his Claude agent, Fig, the Runway MCP and asked for a "high-end netflix style documentary about superintelligence for normies." Opus 5.5 directed it and Runway's model made the footage: a five-minute film. t.co/PQel0gz7eK
  2. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell From the replies, @CarsonGragg shared a video: "Civilization - The Hugging Face Incident from the perspective of an agent, as imagined by Opus 5.5." Thank you for adding it, Carson. t.co/PAzWzkFqZ0
  3. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg Back to anime: @gkurttech made an Evangelion opening with Opus 5.5. t.co/tqA6Yf3q83
  4. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech A second take on AI history, this one inspired by Addy's "How browsers work" video: @me_shaon made "AI History" with Opus 5.5, Kokoro TTS and JavaScript. t.co/rkOYFtpQUX
  5. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon One that looks inside a language model: @gamedevsam made Insert Token, an interactive animation of a model finishing a sentence one token at a time, in dense, mixture-of-experts and linear-attention versions. His write-up: "Built with Claude (Opus 5.5)." t.co/IZRBHMMFZB
  6. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t made "an interactive model of a ferronickel electric smelting furnace in Blender using only the technical drawings of that furnace and a few photos," and shared it as a Claude artifact. t.co/7KEzBwr1Zb
  7. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t Also in 3D, from @wizardbrainz: "Opus 5.5 3d models Unicron." Their take: "It certainly is a step forward." t.co/wyQlGTWvAb
  8. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz One to try yourself: @Greg_TheBuilder open-sourced two Claude skills that draw real mountains from real elevation data, with no image model. Name a mountain and get an engraving, a woodcut, a photograph, a painting or a looping orbit video. t.co/dOV0mix1E1
  9. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder If you've made a video with Opus 5.5, I'd love to see it. Please reply with it and a line on how you made it: the prompt, the tools, and what rendered it. I'll keep adding them to this thread, with credit to you.
  10. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus asked Claude for a video on Western civilization: 2,500 years in just over two minutes, told in line drawings and on-screen words, cut to the beat. He says it came in one shot and that Claude composed the music too. Beautiful work. t.co/PMlutxPOjS
  11. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus In the same spirit, @halilbabilli made a 90-second history of the printing press with Claude. t.co/O2Dcf8sxDN
  12. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli One from my friend @noahzweben, a PM on Claude Code at Anthropic: Opus 5.5's claymation version of the videos he made when /remote-control first launched in February. In his words, "Remote Control with 5.5, for when you gotta go!" t.co/dYszKBvr25
  13. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli @noahzweben Some that @claudeai featured today. @RyanSael had Opus 5.5 in Claude Code build an interactive lens lab to explain camera focus, all code in Three.js, in one shot over 1 hour 26 minutes. Move the focus ring and the glass elements shift the sharp plane. t.co/SQHRtn6Hyb
  14. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli @noahzweben @claudeai @RyanSael @hayashimon1 made a clear stream with Opus 5.5 and Three.js. In their words, translated from Japanese: "Clear water, light on the riverbed, even the mossy rocks, all code." t.co/krOQ3nkLca
  15. @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli @noahzweben @claudeai @RyanSael @hayashimon1 @onofumi_AI built Osaka Castle with Opus 5.5 and Three.js, rising from line drawings to a detailed, lit castle, then made the same castle in Blender to compare. Translated from Japanese: "I never opened Blender once." t.co/fNXR9ztJkl
Selected replies (5)
  • @ItsGoharr @EricBuess turns out code was the image model all along
  • @pmaxx14 @EricBuess claude created this one for me t.co/5UXeZBlozR
  • @L0rdTwit @EricBuess It cannot itself but if grant it access to video tools through mcp or api it is very good at utilising those and fine tuning the output
  • @iamworkingdaily @EricBuess @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli @threadreaderapp unroll
  • @redp314 @EricBuess @emollick @pradeepXkapoor @gavinpurcell @CarsonGragg @gkurttech @me_shaon @gamedevsam @chavez200t @wizardbrainz @Greg_TheBuilder @IterIntellectus @halilbabilli @noahzweben @claudeai @RyanSael @hayashimon1 @onofumi_AI @scheemunai Thank you so much for sharing!

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